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Medical marijuana's unrealized regulatory goals Denver Post State statute allows the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division to contract with a laboratory for independent testing to determine whether products contain molds, pesticides or other substances. The division, however, did not address testing in its …

Connecticut Will Be 17th State To Legalize Medical Marijuana After a raucous debate last night that lasted longer than anticipated, the Connecticut senate passed a medical cannabis bill approved by the House earlier in the session that will now head to Governor Dannel Malloy’s willing pen for signature. With Connecticut passing a medical cannabis bill, approximately one third of the US population now resides in a state that has decided to act in favor of it’s citizens’ will, as compared to the remarkably recalcitrant federal government, which, moronically, still insists cannabis is a dangerous ‘narcotic’ and has no accepted medical value what so ever

One of the most controversial bills has cleared the House of Representatives and is heading to the state Senate, where approval is expected. Gov.

The Michigan House of Representatives passed a package of bills Thursday, aiming to clarify the state’s often confusing Medical Marijuana Act. “The courts, the prosecutors, the police officers, the cannabis groups, ACLU, everybody agreed that something needed to be done,” State Representative Ken Horn, R-Frankenmuth said

For a brief moment in 2009, medical marijuana advocates exhaled. A new President had taken office promising to call off the federal prosecutors in states that had legalized weed for the sick

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) – On an old, long-unused MySpace page, Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman made some disparaging comments about Mexicans and also referred triumphantly to his escape from 2005 legal troubles stemming from his confrontation with law enforcement officers. The 2005-dated page, confirmed as authentic Wednesday by Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara, also mentions a 7-year-old domestic violence incident between Zimmerman and a former girlfriend, and the page includes several photos. Zimmerman, 28, is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb.

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) – On an old, long-unused MySpace page, Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman made some disparaging comments about Mexicans and also referred triumphantly to his escape from 2005 legal troubles stemming from his confrontation with law enforcement officers. The 2005-dated page, confirmed as authentic Wednesday by Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara, also mentions a 7-year-old domestic violence incident between Zimmerman and a former girlfriend, and the page includes several photos. Zimmerman, 28, is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb.

Mason Amin, Rob Korstjens – - The colorful gas station lighters were easy to come by. The cigarillos are legal for 18 year olds to purchase; its legal contents were dumped out of the tan paper and replaced by marijuana resulting in the birth of a newly rolled blunt.

In the last couple of years dispensing medical mariajuana has moved out of dark alleys and into storefronts. As scientific research confirms its benefits, public perception appears to be warming up to the idea of cannabis as legitimate medication. In the near future this progress could lead to a stable industry that provides a secure source of a legitimate prescription medicine